Logan's Birth Story

Well when we got to the hospital they were crazy busy. They had me hooked up to watch my contractions and her heartbeat. They said I wasn't in real labor and they were going to send me home. You could tell they wanted to, because they were so busy. But they had to get permission from a doctor. The doctor looked at the readings and said her heart wasn't acting right so they were going to keep me another hour and wanted her heart to slow down. Then I would have a contraction and afterwards, like a delayed response, her heart would drop. So they decided I was going to stay the night. I got to move to the comfier rooms and got a far better nurse who wasn't trying to get rid of me. But they were soo busy that I ended up having like 5 nurses come in which wasn't very fun. Her heart rate was slowing down but she still was doing weird things. My mom got there in the middle of the night. The nurses started telling me they were positive when the doctor got there that they would induce me. So at 4, a doctor came and she broke my water. I started having real labor contractions like immediately. I was at a 4 1/2 for a long time, which was very disappointing to me because I hurt and couldn't believe the pain wasn't opening me up more! Eventually I started having back labor, which just so happens to be the worse thing that anyone could imagine. That's what turned me into the pregnant women on tv. There are no words for those hours of back labor. My epidural came and I was much much happier! But after a little it stopped working on one part of my stomach. They did some tests on me and decided I just needed more medicine. I felt great again but then nauseous. I was so drugged up. So loopy. They gave me phenagran which just made me want to sleep. Which sucked because after hours and hours of being at a 4 1/2, my doctor checked me and I was at a 10+. The last thing I wanted to do was push because I literally could not stay awake. But the urge came and I would push, then go to sleep. Then the urge, then sleep over and over it felt like. They kept saying I was doing amazing and they couldn't believe it but I was like then why the heck is she not out? They kept talking about her blonde hair. I'm just there like well get her out! My nurse did though have to tell me to stop pushing because she didn't want to deliver the baby. My doctor was on her way. I thought that was the meanest thing ever. I wanted to push so badly. My doctor came and I pushed her out! Apparently the umbilical cord was really short and that was probably the cause of the issues. I just learned this last night because my story surely doesn't end there. No one could believe how big she was. And I only pushed for just over an hour. Logan Nelle Matthews was 7 lbs 11 oz and 20 1/2 inches. I was in labor for about 9 hours. She barely made noise when she came out which made me nervous. But she was fine! I got to have skin to skin with her and I was just so happy! But then my uterus was contracting and I had back labor again. I thought I was going to die. It was truly terrible. They had to take my epidural out too...which added more pain. I don't really remember much but apparently it ended and I survived. I'm pretty positive hell is pregnancy and labor with no end result. But heaven is that end result. I love my little Lo. She's an amazing baby. She's so sweet. I adore everything about her. I just want to eat her all of the time!

When she first came out. This picture kills me. I laugh every time. 

She was actually so alert after she came out for a long time. My mom got this perfect picture of her staring at dad.

Time to go home! She's queen of grumpy faces. But she actually was silent the whole drive home.

It's been funny watching the kitties react to their demotion.